Peter Kedvessy
Senior Staff Engineer at Cloudera
Szeged, Hungary
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RockstarPeter Kedvessy is a Senior Staff Engineer based in Szeged, Hungary, with a decade of experience building backend systems for large-scale data platforms. He has advanced through technical roles at Cloudera and EPAM, contributing to cloud data management and analytics products and now shaping architecture and delivery at Cloudera. A pragmatic Java backend specialist, he has made notable open-source contributions to high-profile projects like Apache NiFi and Hortonworks Cloudbreak, improving C2 functionality and environment management logic. His work shows a pattern of solving subtle correctness and lifecycle issues—such as preventing unsafe deletions of parent environments and enhancing remote agent control—which improves reliability in distributed deployments. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful backend design, robust integrations, and steadying influence on production-grade data infrastructure. He combines hands-on coding with systems thinking, often surfacing non-obvious edge cases that prevent outages in complex cloud environments.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
English
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Github Skills (9)
javas10
apache-nifi10
backend10
back-end-development10
java10
testing9
json9
rest-api8
spring-boot7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hortonworks/cloudbreak
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
CDP Public Cloud is an integrated analytics and data management platform deployed on cloud services. It offers broad data analytics and artificial intelligence functionality along with secure user access and data governance features.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:183 reviews, 160 commits, 246 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Peter's commits primarily focused on backend development tasks, specifically within the environment module. They implemented code changes to address issues related to environment deletion, including preventing the deletion of parent environments when child environments were active. Their work involved modifying Java code, specifically in test and service classes, to incorporate checks for active child environments and enforce the correct deletion sequence. The user also modified the repository classes to facilitate lookups for environment names.
data-management-platformcdp-public-cloudsecurecloud-servicesdata-management
apache/nifi
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
Apache NiFi
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 9 PRs, 15 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to the Apache NiFi project by implementing features related to the C2 (Command and Control) functionality, including exposing processor bulletins and metrics as part of FlowInfo. They also addressed issues by adding default values to the MiNiFi flow configuration and implementing start/stop flow operations. The user's work involved modifying core classes and interfaces related to C2 protocol and the MiNiFi client service to support these new functionalities and enhance the control over the MiNiFi agent.
javanifiapacheapache-nifi
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